Salt Lake Tribune | 1916-05-01 | Page 2 | Workmen in Alaska to Get High Wages

WORKMEN IN ALASKA TO GET HIGH WAGES Government Is Forced to Grant Unparalleled Scale for Railroad Work. SIC WARD, Alaska, April 30. Vhn ron-fitruotion ron-fitruotion work on the l.'nittd Stales railway rail-way Is resumed tomorrow by striking workman, U will be on a wa basis said to b unparalleled for railroad work In t.liis territory or th tTnlred States. Petal Pe-tal 1h of the wiii ft yrr-omf: u I heLv.--;n the Al.f.ska fchtflnneibtK rom mission and the K.Iftial Uhor union at Anchorage, whlcn w rft received here tola v, Miow t haL th fl'-hf-iliilo contains- rnatri.-il advances for all ciass of work, r.tiltM from 40-'-rt Cuntw an hour for M.-otlou hi Ijorc-rw, to a mouth for s Learn .--hovel i.-timc-f-r!-. (ri-flrlalH (ri-flrlalH of the romndf Mhni naid the only thlriK they reared wuk that the liiKh wacs would-. r:ii.usti morn labor.: ra to rush to Alaska than onuM h u.sed, and that hard-BJttpH hard-BJttpH would ho caused men out of work. Oh airman J'. M. Moftutt of the arbitration arbi-tration board which suk-d the strike, said that In a ira iitriii the snhedul the board, whlrdi took teM.linony from Lieutenant Lieu-tenant Frederick Meara of the AIhhUh eu-jflriuerlntf eu-jflriuerlntf commission and from workman In all tlie rutiHtrucflon -a.mpfl, took Into consideration the higher tost of IIvIiik Rlom? the line of ronntruetlon In Alaska, com nn red wllh thfiF In the T'nited Stalen. Cons' met Ion work will resumed at rif all along thft line north of Anchor-aiifi, Anchor-aiifi, and efforts will be made to rush to completion the branch line to the Mata-nu!ka Mata-nu!ka coal fields this Biimjner. Additional forces also will be put to work on the toward division.